دعاني فليس الرأيُ ما تَريَانِ

نهاني الحِجَا عن كلِّ ما تَصفانِ

He invited me, but I don't agree with what you both think

The Hijab prohibited me from all that you two describe

فما المجد في راح تَطوفُ بكأسها

رَداحٌ ولا في مَثْلثٍ ومثَاني

So what is the glory in passing around a cup

Nonsense! Nor in a triangle or an octagon

أرقتُ وعاد القلبَ طائفُ فِكرةٍ

نَأَى بالكرى عن مقلتي وشَجاني

I stayed up at night and my heart kept circulating an idea

It took the balls far away from my eyelids and self

وقد كَملتْ فيه النُّهى لا يَسرّه

نعيم ولا يرتاع للحَدَثان

And prohibitions against pleasures were completed in it

Neither luxury makes him happy, nor is he startled by news

أَرَى إِرثَنا في معشرٍ يملِكونه

ولم يُعطِهم إيّاه فَرْض قُرانِ

I see our inheritance in a group who possess it

And the Quran did not give it to them as an obligation

يُدافِعنا عن حقّنا كلّ غاصبٍ

ويُعدَى علينا فيه كلَّ زمانِ

Every usurper defends us from our right

And we are transgressed upon it in every era

ألسنا بني بنتِ النبيّ الّذي به

تخلَّص من زَيْغ العمى الثقلانِ

Aren't we the sons of the Prophet's daughter, by whom

He was saved from the deviation of heavy blindness?

أليس أبونا خِدنُه ووصيه

وفارسه في كلّ يومِ طِعانِ

Isn't our father his backbone and his successor

And his knight in every day of spears?

فكفّوا بني العبّاس عنا جِماحَكْم

فقد آن أن نغزو بكلّ مكان

So spare us, O Abbasids, your wings

For it is time for us to invade every place

متى لم تكونوا دُونَنا وتَسابقوا

لِصالحِنا في كلّ يومِ رِهان

When will you not be below us and compete

For our good on every day of racing

بمن نُصِر الإسلام في يَوْمِ خيبرٍ

ويومِ حُنينٍ والقَنا مُتدان

By whom was Islam victorious on the day of Khaibar

And the day of Hunayn while the spears were bending

أليس عليٌّ كان كاشفَ غَمِّها

وما كان للعبّاس ثمَّ يدانِ

Wasn't it Ali who revealed its sorrows

And Al-Abbas had no hands there?

ومَن فَرَجَ الغَمّاء عن وجه أحمدٍ

بمكّةَ لمّا رِيع كلُّ جنَان

And who relieved the gloom from Ahmad's face

In Mecca when all gardens wilted

فبات على ظَهرِ الفِراش بَديلَه

يقيه ردى الأعداء غيرَ جَبانِ

So he spent the night on his bed in his place

Protecting him from the aggression of uncowardly enemies

وكم مثلها من مفخرٍ وفضيلةٍ

حواها عليٌّ وهوَ ليس بوان

And how many similar glories and virtues

Ali possessed while he was not weak

فإن قلتُم إنا جميعاً لهاشم

فما يستوي في الجثّة العَضُدان

If you say that we are all Hashimites

The two arms are not equal in one body

فكم تدفعون الحقَّ والحقُّ واضحٌ

دنا منكُم ما كان ليس بِدانِ

How much do you repel the clear truth?

What is not close to you has not come near

أميّة كانت قبلَكْم في اغتصابها

أحقَّ فبارت وارتدت بهوانِ

Umayyah was before you in its usurpation

More rightful, but it perished and retreated in disgrace

أخذتمْ بغَضبٍ إرثَنا وصعِدتمُ

مَنابَر ما كنتم لها بأماني

You have taken our inheritance angrily and climbed

Pulpits that you were not safe to dream of

وجئتمْ بأسماءٍ يَروقُ استماعُها

وألفاظِ حُسنٍ ما لهنَ معانِ

And you came up with names that are pleasing to hear

And words of beauty that have no meanings

رشيدٌ ولم يَرْشُد وهادٍ وما هَدَى

بحقّ ومأمونٌ بغير أمان

Rashid, and he did not guide, and Hadi, and he did not guide

With truth, and Al-Ma'mun without safety

ومعتِصمٌ لم يعتصمْ بإلهِه

ومقتدِر لِم يقتدر ببيانِ

Al-Mu'tasim did not adhere to his God

And Al-Muqtadir did not have the ability to clarify

ومعتضِد بالإفك خابَ اعتضاده

ومنتصرٌ بالبغي غيرُ مُعانِ

Al-Mu'tadid's reliance on slander failed him

And Al-Muntasir without strength was not supported

أصِيخوا فقد قام العزيز الّذي به

تدين خطوبُ الدهر بعدَ حِرانِ

Cry out, for the Mighty One has risen, by whom

The vicissitudes of fate bow down after confusion

كأن رواقَ المُلك من نور وجهِه

سماءٌ بدا في أُفقِها القَمران

It is as if the porch of the kingdom from the light of his face

Is a sky in whose horizon the two moons rose

أغرّ كَنصْل السيف يُمضي اعنزامَه

بكلّ رقيق الشَّفْرتين يمانِ

Dazzling like the blades of swords, fulfilling their sharpness

With every delicate and flexible side

كأنّ العطايا والمنايا نوافلٌ

يجود بها مِنْ منُصُل وبنَان

It is as if grants and gifts are supererogatory

He generously bestows from a scabbard and structure

حويتَ أبا المنصور كلَّ فضيلةٍ

وأمسكتَها دون الورى بعِنان

You have enclosed Abu Al-Mansour with all virtue

And held it back from all creation by a rein

كأنّ جميعَ الخلِق جسمٌ مركَّبٌ

وأنت عليه الرأسُ والكَتِفانِ

It is as if all people are one complex body

And you are its head and its two shoulders

يهنّيك بالعِيد الّذي أنتَ عِيدُه

وعيدُ الورى المحمودُ كلَّ أوانِ

He congratulates you on the feast which you are its feast

And the feast of all creation is blessed at all times

كأنّك في سيماكَ إذ قمتَ خاطِبا

وأعيننا طرّا إليك روانِ

It is as if, when you stood up to speak

And our eyes joyfully set upon you

شبيه نبيِّ الله جَدِّك أحمَدٍ

ويشبِه فرعَ البانة الغُصُنان

You resemble Allah's Prophet your grandfather Ahmad

And the branch resembles the parent tree

وكم عَلَويٍّ فاطميٍّ مفضَّل

ولكنّهمْ ما فيهم لك ثانِ

And how many Alawite Fatimids there are

But none of them has a place like yours

ومنَ يدّعي منهمْ مكانَك في العلا

فقد جاء بالبهتان والهَذَيان

And whoever of them claims your supreme position

Has come up with falsehood and delusion

إذا ما كفاك الله ما أنت متّقٍ

شفانيَ ممّا أتّقي وكفاني

When Allah protects you from what you fear

It makes me safe from what I fear and suffices me

وإني لسهمٌ مِن سِهامِكَ ماطِرٌ

على كلّ من عاداك سَهم سِنان

And I am an arrow from your arrows, showering

Upon every enemy of yours an Indian arrow

أراك بعين النصح في كلّ حالة

على كل ما فيك اعتقدت تراني

I see you with an advising eye in every situation

I believed you to have every perfection that is in you

ومن ذا الّذي يرعاك عنّي بوُدّه

على كلّ غيب أو بكلّ عِيان

And who is it that would divert you from me in his love

In every absence or in every presence

أخٌ ووليٌّ مشفِقٌ وابنُ والدٍ

شقيقٍ ومَدّاحٌ بكلّ لِسانِ

A brother, protector, caring, son of a

Sincere father, praising you with every tongue